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Student Information Literacy Resources    

Citations & Footnotes

Copyright

Information Literacy

Plagiarism

Web Site Evaluation

Citations & Bibliographies

• American Psychological Assn. (APA) style -- Electronic Reference Formats
• Chicago Manual of Style - Florida State University Citation Examples See also (1), (2), (3)
• MLA citations - from Norma Hall's faculty page, gives examples for each format.
• Noodlebib MLA starter - Free tool for creating MLA-Style bibliographies.
• Purdue OWL - Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. One of the best resources on the Internet for help with research, writing, citations and bibliographies.
• Download the Manor College Basileiad Library citation guide here.

The following books show examples of every type of citation and are available in the library.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Lanuage 
      Assocation of America, 2003. 
      REF PE1408.G53 2003
Hult, Christine A. The new century pocket guide for writers. New York: Longman/Pearson, 2004.
      REF PE1408 .H85 2004
Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations. Chicago: University
      of Chicago Press, 1996.
      REF PE1408.T871996
Raimes, Ann. Keys for writers: a brief handbook. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
      REF PE1408.R16 2002
 

Copyright

• Copyright & Fair Use -- Stanford University Libraries - Everything you need to know in one web site.
• Crash course in copyright - from the University of Texas.
• United States Copyright Office

Information Literacy

Basileiad Library's Online Information Literacy course.

Other online training resources to help you learn information literacy skills:

• Virtual Training Suite A set of 'teach yourself' tutorials to improve your Information Literacy skills, based on your subject of interest.
• Information and You - from Penn State University.
• University of Maryland - "The Web is Not an Encyclopedia"

Plagiarism Websites 

Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n  Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 9th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1981, p. 870).

• Avoiding plagiarism - Purdue University Online Writing Lab Article
• Education World - Student's Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism. 
• Plagiarism.org - Site devoted to fighting plagiarism and bringing academic integrity back into our schools.
• The Web's plagiarism police - Salon.com article on the subject.

Evaluating a Website

• Evaluating Resources on the Internet. - links to other evaluation pages.
• Evaluating Websites for Quality  - from the University of New Hampshire.
• Evaluating Websites - from the University of Maryland, University Libraries.

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